St Mary Redcliffe Church Parish Magazine - November 2017

Our starting point is always thorough research. We spend time getting to
know sites and subjects in order to develop convincing and meaningful
story lines and visitor experiences that really resonate.
We’re a creative bunch and we enjoy the challenge of coming up with
design solutions that spark people’s imagination and help them enjoy and
appreciate heritage. Small touches here and there help our designs stand
out and make a statement.
It’s all very well coming up with bright ideas, but how do you make them
work in reality? Being practically-minded, we are used to converting bright
ideas into workable solutions that fit within real world budgets. We have a
rigorous approach to project management and quality control and pride
ourselves on delivering to time and budget.”
One of the key milestones during the next year will be the submission
in November 2018 of a bid to the Heritage Lottery Funding scheme
(HLF) for significant funding to support the creation of new built facilities.
As we are asking for HLF funds, we will need to ensure that our project
matches HLF outcomes for heritage, people and communities. One of
the reasons that Imagemakers was chosen to carry out the interpretation
work is that the organisation has a long-established working knowledge
of the HLF and a strong track record of delivering successful HLF funding
applications.
The first stage of the planning will take place on Wednesday 15 November,
when Imagemakers host an interpretation workshop in Bristol. This will be
attended by Dan Tyndall, Peter Rignall, Rhys Williams, the church wardens,
representatives from the PCC and the various consultants who have been
employed to work on the project. During this meeting we will seek to identify
the various stories and themes that are associated with the church and begin
to discuss the various interpretative approaches that might be employed to
tell these stories through our collection of heritage assets and the church
building itself.
Rhys Williams
Research Assistant
soundbites music at smr
CONGRATULATIONS, AND FAREWELL
— ANDREW KIRK, DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
SILVER AWARD SUCCESS: Congratulations to Head Choristers, Hugh
Arthur and Ben Allison-Scammell on achieving high marks in their
recent RSCM singing exams. Hugh achieved the joint equal highest mark
for a Redcliffe chorister in the past decade. They will be presented with
their medals shortly.
FULL CHORISTERS: Leo Borgnana, Hal Cleave and Barnaby Westrup will
receive their surplices to mark the end of their time as probationers in
the boys choir. We have 17 boys in the choir at the moment and my aim
is to get to 20 in the next few months. Our Sunday School is thriving too
— perhaps there are one or two boys/girls who might give choir a try?
NEW ORGAN SCHOLAR: We are delighted to announce the appointment
of Matthew Brown as our Organ Scholar. We had three candidates for
the position this year. Matt is a first year music undergraduate. Before
coming to Bristol he spent two years in Canada where he picked up the
church music bug!
BATH ABBEY COMBINED CHOIRS EVENSONG AND FOOTBALL MATCH:
Congratulations to SMR choir striker Hugh Arthur for scoring a goal at
the match held at SMRT School after the combined Evensong. The Bath Abbey
choristers played well — our guests won 2–1. Thanks to the school for giving
us the outdoor pitch free of charge. The Evensong went very well too with
music including Stanford in C and For Lo I raise up. We hope to make this an
annual meet-up.
BILL BARWELL — RIP : Bill Barwell was a tenor in our choir for over 11
years and will be greatly missed for his lovely voice, his nurture of the
young people in the choir and his great sense of humour. There was no
mistaking when Bill was in the room — he filled it with energy! Many of the
choir sang at his Memorial Service on Thursday 26 October.
Andrew Kirk; Director of Music